Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Description
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface tha
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — 1983)
Bancroft Prize (1983)
Language
Physical description
xiv, 543 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0195031318 / 9780195031317
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